Life Of Alexander The Great

Our new series, The Renaissance Times, launched on Dec 24, 2017. Here’s the first episode! Go check out the rest of the series at therenaissancetimes.com.   […] The post Renaissance Episode 1 – Constantine The Great appeared first on Alexander.

The Dark Ages are ending! As you may have realized, we published our very last Alexander episode last week! Now some of you might be wondering […] The post Subscribing To Renaissance appeared first on Alexander.

Well, here we are. Three years, 122 episodes, some of which were a LOT longer than an hour, so probably around 130-140 hours of story. We […] The post #122 – The Last Show appeared first on Alexander.

Professor Ian Worthington joins us again to talk about new book about Ptolemy!   HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to […] The post #111 – Ian Worthington appeared first on Alexander.

David Grant has just published a truly unique and fascinating book called “In Search of the Lost Testament of Alexander”. We recently had him on to […] The post #96 – The Lost Testament of Alexander with David Grant appeared first on Alexander.

James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. After getting his B.A. in […] The post #77 – JAMES ROMM appeared first on Alexander.

In this episode Alexander III of Macedon marches all the way from Alexandria in Egypt to Gaugamela (near Mosul in modern day Iraq) where Darius of […] The post #28 – The Battle Of Gaugamela, Part I appeared first on Alexander.

It's late 333 BCE. Alexander faces Darius on the battlefield for the first time! He's outnumbered – 3 to 1 or even 11 to 1, depending […] The post #23 – The Battle Of Issus appeared first on Alexander.

In this exciting episode, we see Alexander engage the Persians for the first time! We also talk about Persian religion, Zoroastrianism, and talk a little about […] The post #18 – Battle of the Granicus River appeared first on Alexander.

After six long months and 14 episodes we finally end Chapter One of our series with Philip II's assassination. It's one of the craziest stories you'll […] The post #14 – The Death Of A King appeared first on Alexander.

If you’re not already one of the many fans of Peter Adamson’s “History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps” podcast, you will be by the end of […] The post #09 – Peter Adamson on Aristotle appeared first on Alexander.

King Philip bought some time with his peace treaties and marriages and used that time to re-engineer the Macedonian army and cavalry. In this (shortish due […] The post #04 – King Philip Goes To War appeared first on Alexander.

The saga begins! We kick off the new series talking about why Alexander The Great is worth discussing – cavalry commander at 16, king at 20, […] The post #01 – The Saga Begins. appeared first on Alexander.